Not even tuna and pasta bake -the dirt-cheap dish beloved of grotty student digs all over the country -but simply a tin of tuna,half a pound of broccoli, a can of Campbell's mushroom soup and a packet of plain crisps crushed and sprinkled over the top.

It is quite fashionable to repeat stories of subscribers who receive dirt-cheap Ethernet from some new provider, but the practical reality is that you have to be one of the lucky few to be "on net" otherwise you get nothing at all.

The number of US mortgage applications hit an all-time record last week - both from home-buyers and from existing borrowers seeking to lock themselves into today's dirt-cheap interest rates with a fixed-rate remortgage.

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